Article provides context to and includes the recollections of the author's mother, Isola B. Hover, and her experiences on the frontier of Oklahoma Territory with her husband, Francis M. Hover. Leola Lehman's mother discusses farm work, homesteading various towns, and the Farmers Union.

Article describes the life and career of Colonel Elias C. Boudinot, an attorney of the Cherokee Nation and Stand Watie's nephew. Muriel H. Wright provides context to the life of the Confederate Army officer and includes an excerpt of a tribute written by Boudinot's friend John D. Adams.

Article discusses the fall of the Confederate Army in Indian Territory during the Civil War, and the details of battles and commanders who clashed during this time. Fred Hood describes American Indian participation in the war and the military campaign of Stand Watie.

This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 24, 1963.

Article provides the personal recollections of Orvoe Swartz, who was brought to the "Cherokee Strip" and lived in a sod house with his pioneer family. Swartz describes memories such as making a sod house on the frontier, pest issues, a snake eating an entire chicken in his brother's hen house, and the land runs of Oklahoma.

Article describes the consolidated units of American Indian forces during the Civil War known as the Indian Division of Brigadier-General D. H. Cooper. Allan C. Ashcraft includes an inspection report by Captain B. W. Marston highlighting the faults of Cooper's command and subsequent correspondence between Confederate officials.

Article describes the life and work of Lucia Loomis Ferguson and her husband, who were both newspaper editors in the early twentieth century. Hope Holway relates the story of Ferguson's childhood growing up on the frontier in the care of her doctor father, and the content of Ferguson's professional writing.

Article provides a memorial address given by H. Milt Phillips honoring the contributions of U. S. Senator Robert S. Kerr, General Patrick Hurley, John Porter, and Mrs. Virgil Browne. Phillips also discusses the state of the world in 1963 and stresses the importance of studying the Humanities and preserving culture and history.

Notes and Documents column including documents about an amendment proposal, ceremonies, genealogical records, historical notes, museum openings, and events.

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including former Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma Thomas Livingston Gibson and Choctaw surveyor James Brookes Wright.